Food security has become a major concern worldwide in recent years due to ever increasing
population. Providing food for the growing billions without disturbing environmental balance …

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major crop that feeds 40% of the world's population.
Over the past several decades, advances in genomics have led to tremendous …

Disruption of susceptibility (S) genes in crops is an attractive breeding strategy for conferring
disease resistance,. However, S genes are implicated in many essential biological functions …

Rye is a valuable food and forage crop, an important genetic resource for wheat and triticale
improvement and an indispensable material for efficient comparative genomic studies in …

The global diversity of fungi has been estimated between 2 to 11 million species, of which
only about 155 000 have been named. Most fungi are invisible to the unaided eye, but they …

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) incurs significant yield losses from powdery mildew, a major
fungal disease caused by Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt). enhanced disease resistance1 …

Fungal diseases have been underestimated worldwide but constitute a substantial threat to
several plant and animal species as well as to public health. The increase in the global …

Head or ear blight, mainly caused by Fusarium species, can devastate almost all staple
cereal crops (particularly wheat), resulting in great economic loss and imposing health …

Bread wheat improvement using genomic tools is essential for accelerating trait genetic
gains. Here we report the genomic predictabilities of 35 key traits and demonstrate the …

Powdery mildew, caused by Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt), is one of the most
destructive diseases that pose a great threat to wheat production. Wheat landraces …